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Exercising can be hard at the best of times. Fitting training into a busy schedule is difficult, and this can be made even harder when you experience setbacks.
You probably know the feeling – you’ve made the commitment and after four weeks of really knuckling down and staying...
About 60% of Australian adults experience poor quality sleep. Markers of poor-quality sleep includes trouble falling asleep, staying asleep and waking too early and not being able to fall back asleep. These markers of poor sleep quality lead to a reduction in sleep, correlating with decreased...
I had a very interesting conversation with my uncle the other day who said to me that if it wasn’t for smoking he would have died from work related stress many years ago. I agree with him to some degree. My uncle has been retired for nearly 20 years but was formerly a CFO at a large mining...
The other day one of our trainers was telling me about the programs they were running at a national rugby league club he was working at. The NRL are known to have a high number of suicides among young men for a number of reasons. Thankfully they have taken the proactive steps of implementing a...
Conventional wisdom has been to train harder, for longer in order to get the best results. However this is not the case and this approach not only leads to poor results but can have the completely opposite desired effect. By better understanding how stress impacts upon your body, as it can be...
During a trip to New Zealand in 1962, Bill Bowerman, a former track and field coach, discovered a concept called ‘jogging’ and decided to bring the phenomenon back to the United States. It was during this jogging boom Bowerman was introduced to a young entrepreneur and accountant, ...
Many people use exercise to improve body shape, improve performance and decrease their pain. However, it is well known, and gaining further interest on the benefits to your mental health. Stress, anxiety and depression amongst other mental health issues are extremely complex, yet a simple helpful...
How many times have you heard someone in the office say that they perform better under pressure? In sports we hear this all the time. The most famous case being Michael Jordan, who was praised by the basketball world for being level headed and more skilled in games that had higher consequences...
